Business Green

JUNE 29, 2021

Current levels of investment in negative emissions technology fall far short of levels required to cap temperature rise in line with Paris goals, new coalition warns. Most global pathways to achieving decarbonisation in line with 1.5

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Climate 4.0

MARCH 7, 2021

Economy will be achieved only when global warming is held to 1.5°C The UN’s 195-member-country Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) sets the target year at 2050. Digital Transformation of the global economy now well-underway. Digital Transformation of the global economy now well-underway.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) technologies are being adopted too slowly to achieve even the IPCC’s 2.0° upper limit for global warming, according to a new McKinsey study. CCUS needs new business models; state subsidies alone may not create needed growth, says says McKinsey & Company report.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

The voluntary carbon offset market is rocketing, with the Ecosystem Marketplace reporting an annual market value of ~$1 billion in 2021, which was an all-time high. This can make things difficult for business leaders like you, looking to reduce their carbon footprint through purchasing offsets. The rules of carbon offsetting.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

To avert catastrophic warming, the global community must rapidly reduce how much of these fuels it extracts and burns. Our new paper , published in Nature, revealed just how tight the world’s remaining carbon budget is likely to be. Our analysis showed that total fossil fuel production is limited by a global carbon budget.

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Business Green

APRIL 17, 2020

Shell has become the latest oil major to join the net zero club, yesterday pledging to strengthen its previous climate goals in a bid to deliver net zero emissions across its business and value chain by 2050. So just how serious is Shell about decarbonising its business and reaching net zero by 2050? warming pathway.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

As a result, the industry accounts for roughly 8 percent of annual carbon dioxide emissions, as well as a toxic soup of air pollutants. Doing so is essential to limiting global warming to 1.5 But in order to curb steel’s carbon emissions, the sector will have to transform how the material is traditionally made.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Proposed Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill would see international aviation, shipping, and consumption fall within the UK's 2050 net zero target, while putting climate assemblies on a formal standing. Based on the Paris Agreement goal to limit global warming to 1.5C

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

The reason it’s considered a solution is that plants suck up carbon from the air while they grow. When we turn them into fuels and burn them, no new carbon is added to the atmosphere —the whole cycle is considered “carbon neutral.” But critics say biofuels’ carbon-neutrality is a mirage. The case for negative emissions.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Oil and gas giant sets sights on developing science-based climate targets, as hydrogen, nature based solutions, carbon capture, utility business, and electric vehicle infrastructure all earmarked for increased investment. The oil and gas giant confirmed its total carbon emissions peaked in 2018 at 1.7

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 27, 2022

A warming world doesn’t bode well for a sport that skates on frozen water. One study reported that the average carbon footprint per skier could be as much as 74kg CO 2e per trip. Yet there are ways resorts can mitigate their climatic impact, to help curb global warming and become more sustainable.

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Business Green

APRIL 5, 2022

Carbon capture firm Climeworks has announced that it has completed a $650m equity round a day, just after the IPCC stated that carbon dioxide removal would now be essential to limit global warming to 1.5C. goal within reach.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

After all, a substantial fraction of global carbon emissions arise from the production, transportation, and consumption of fossil fuels. Hydrogen is increasingly being viewed as an important tool for reducing carbon emissions, because the use of hydrogen for energy generates no direct carbon dioxide emissions.

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Business Green

JULY 14, 2022

Global tech giant Microsoft has announced it has signed a 10-year carbon removal offtake agreement with Swiss direct air capture firm Climeworks that will see it fund the removal of 10,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions from the atmosphere.

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Grist

MARCH 29, 2021

Shopify, the Canadian company that runs e-commerce sites, wants to take a more hands-on approach — by paying a Texas venture to pull carbon dioxide from the sky and store it underground. Climate scientists say the world must now do both to limit global warming to 1.5 Carbon Engineering.

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Business Green

APRIL 17, 2024

Major new analysis from the Potsdam Institute warns climate impacts through to 2050 could do significantly more economic damage than previously expected How bad could it get? Under worse case scenarios, climate damages could reach $59tr in 2050 and incomes could be 60 per cent lower than expected.

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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2021

Larry Fink, CEO of world's largest asset manager, urges firms to publicly disclose credible strategies for achieving net zero by 2050. It has reminded us how the biggest crises, whether medical or environmental, demand a global and ambitious response.".

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Energy Innovation

JANUARY 28, 2020

Given the Paris Accord’s aspirations, the climate challenge facing humanity can be expressed in simple terms: halve annual carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions by 2030, halve them again by 2040, and again by 2050. Here we focus on some aspects of land-use and negative emission technologies (NET) dependent on the land.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2019

The analysis details the wide ranging and severe impacts that climate change will have on the ocean and ocean-based economy and calls for a forward looking, cooperative and equitable global response. Even if action is taken to cut carbon emissions, the industry is still expected to suffer economic losses of up to 66%.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The production of cement, steel, paper, aluminium, chemicals, and other heavy-duty industrial materials is responsible for roughly a quarter of global greenhouse emissions, yet the biggest firms in these crucial sectors remain woefully underprepared for the net zero transition, having largely failed to roll out credible corporate climate strategies.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Ridley wrote last year that global heating was “mostly beneficial”. Ridley is an advisor to the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s main climate denial group, which is based on Westminster’s Tufton Street. Eleven opinion writers were board members or academic advisors at the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF).

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Grist

MARCH 3, 2022

Climate change is already having “widespread, pervasive impacts” on people everywhere in the world, a new report from the scientific panel says, due to the warming that has occurred so far — roughly 1.09 Global warming doesn’t only affect humans by changing the weather and melting the ice caps, the report warns.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Governments around the world have today adopted a non-binding 2050 net zero emissions target for international flights, in a "milestone" move that for the first time seeks to put the global aviation sector on a long-term decarbonisation pathway that is in line with the Paris Agreement. CORSIA progress.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Joshua Tosteson, COO of climate conservation marketing company Everland, offers a defense of REDD+ carbon offsets. The recently-released United Nations Global Biodiversity Outlook opens with these words: "Humanity stands at a crossroads with regard to the legacy it leaves to future generations.".

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

Methane emissions reduction could significantly reduce rates of global warming at a relatively low cost, major research warns. The report also points out that methane emissions reduction efforts need not be hugely expensive, noting that the majority of solutions available today can be delivered at a low or negative cost for operators.

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Business Green

JUNE 9, 2020

The government must now address the market for all the low carbon energy technologies of the future, including hydrogen and CCUS, argues Siemens UK & Ireland CEO Steve Scrimshaw. The public want to see the government take even bolder steps to move the UK towards net zero carbon. I n the energy transition, there is no one silver bullet.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2022

New report from the Coalition for Negative Emissions argues urgent action is needed to expand carbon removals market - and businesses have a critical role to play. Most importantly, delivering net zero emissions through carbon offsets risks distracting from the need to slash emissions at source.

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Business Green

APRIL 15, 2021

Major projects are inherently carbon intensive, and the data required for effective analytics is not easily obtained, as major projects span multiple organisations and each organisation has their own individual objectives and separate data strategies. billion tonnes of carbon every year. Neither are easy.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

The extent of the climate impacts already baked-in to 2050 is "shocking", according to CCC chief executive Chris Stark. That is because regardless of whether the UK reaches net zero emissions by 2050 or not, myriad and costly impacts of rising temperatures are still going to occur, and indeed are already starting to happen.

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2021

UN argues 'rapid deployment' of CCUS needed to meet carbon neutrality goals. The report acknowledges that CCYUS technologies alone will not be sufficient to deliver carbon neutrality in line with the goals ofthe Paris Agreement. The trend now is to shift away from carbon," said Maeda Tadashi.

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Business Green

MAY 29, 2020

Today's letter, which was coordinated by campaign group Mission2020, calls on IEA director Fatih Birol to ensure an energy scenario that shows how quickly emissions must fall to meet the Paris Agreement target of limiting global warming to 1.5C by 2050 and avoiding "unpreceded human catastrophes". is "central" to the report.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Landmark IPCC report provides wave of stark warnings, but stresses that rapidly putting the global economy on course to net zero emissions by 2050 could hugely reduce the escalating impacts that will result from a warmer world. The report concludes that the world's average surface land temperature currently stands at around 1.1C

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

Yet growth in global emissions has also slowed, and the authors of today's report maintain that mobilising the finance, scaling up the technologies, and incentivising behaviour changes needed to drive a "substantial reduction in overall fossil fuel use" remains eminently feasible and - crucially - affordable.

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Business Green

AUGUST 30, 2022

UBS has become the first financial services firm to partner with Swiss direct air capture (DAC) specialist Climeworks, with the investment bank today announcing it has signed a 10-year agreement to help offset its "unavoidable" emissions and support the expansion of the nascent carbon removals sector.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2023

Greenpeace Italy and Italian advocacy group ReCommon aim to build on a similar case targeting Anglo-Dutch oil major Royal Dutch Shell in the Netherlands to force Eni to slash its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Eni has set a target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050. ‘Friend Methane! ‘Friend Methane!

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The remaining 20 percent represents investments outside of fossil fuels, in areas such as renewables, carbon capture and storage, and research into new green technologies. . The simple fact is that they are not reducing their polluting activities by the significant amount required to limit the worst impacts of global warming.”.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Reports emerge of disagreements within Cabinet over expectation management for crucial Summit, as emerging economies hit out at hosts' calls for countries to set net zero by 2050 targets. Communities on the front line of climate change understand very starkly that keeping global warming within 1.5C

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